Selected publications.

Books

2026. Otis, Eileen M. Walmart: Made in China. Stanford University Press.

2011. Otis, Eileen M. Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China. Stanford University Press.

Forthcoming

Otis, Eileen M. Forthcoming. "From the Factory Floor to the Retail Aisle: Reconstructing Burawoy's Labor Politics in the Age of Merchant Capital." Critical Sociology.

Selected Journal Articles

2022. Otis, Eileen M. and Larissa Petrucci. "The Gender Fix: Outsourcing Feminism and the Gender Politics of Supply Chains." Gender & Society 37(1): 65-90.

2018. Otis, Eileen M. and Tongyu Wu. "The Deficient Worker: Skills, Identity, and Inequality in Service Employment." Sociological Perspectives 61(5): 787-807.

2018. Otis, Eileen M. and Tongyu Wu. "One Store, Two Fates: Boundary Work and Service Capital in China's Retail Sector." The Journal of Chinese Sociology 5: 1-17.

2016. Otis, Eileen M. "Bridgework: Globalization, Gender, and Service Labor at a Luxury Hotel." Gender & Society 30(6): 912-934.

2016. Otis, Eileen M. "China's Beauty Proletariat: Body Rules and the Formation of Embodied Hegemony in a Retail Cosmetics Department." Positions: Asia Critique 24(1): 155-177.

2008. Otis, Eileen M. "Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Consumer Markets and the Gender Politics of Labor in China's Globalized Service Workplaces." American Sociological Review 73(1): 15-36.

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